#!perl -w use strict; my ( $var1, $var2, @t_arr ); open(SL,"; close(SL); chomp(@t_arr); $t_arr[0] =~ s/\s+$//; # trailing whitespace ($var1, $var2) = split( /\s*=\s*/, $t_arr[0], 2); if( !defined($var2) ) { print "undefined\n"; } else { print "$var1 X${var2}X\n"; } exit;